News from November 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2019
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-Billy J. Williams, U.S. Attorney for the District of Oregon, announced today that Lorenzo Laron Jones, 46, a Portland resident and senior member of the Hoover Criminal Gang, has been indicted for his role in a racketeering conspiracy that caused the shooting deaths of two Portland men.
By State Newswire | Nov 7, 2019
News Release: Eliminate, Neutralize, and Disrupt Wildlife Trafficking Act of 2016.

By Interior Newswire | Nov 7, 2019
News Release: SANTA FE, N.M. -The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) New Mexico raised $18,394,059 in its quarterly oil and gas lease sale held November 7, 2019. Nearly 50 percent of the revenue from the sale will go to the states where the oil and gas activity occurs-in this case New Mexico and Oklahoma-while the rest will go to the U.S. Treasury.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2019
News Release: CHICAGO - A federal jury has convicted a Chicago man of robbing an ATM technician at gunpoint in the city’s Little Village neighborhood.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2019
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - A Columbia, Missouri, man who was arrested after crashing his car in a high-speed chase pleaded guilty in federal court today to illegally possessing firearms.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2019
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A certified public accountant in Lebanon, Missouri, was convicted by a federal jury today of a $7 million scheme to defraud his employer and clients.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2019
News Release: Justice Department Awards $95 Million to Improve Public Safety in the State of Tennessee.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2019
News Release: MONROE, La. - A Monroe couple was sentenced to 69 years collectively in prison for robbing three financial institutions at gunpoint and for multiple firearms violations, announced United States Attorney David C. Joseph.

By Homeland Newswire | Nov 7, 2019
Release: SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) today reminded South Dakota residents that starting Oct. 1, 2020, all travelers will need a REAL ID-compliant driver license, identification card or another acceptable form of identification to board a commercial flight.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 7, 2019
News Release: MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY - A peer-reviewed report summarizing the results of Yellowstone’s 2018 Visitor Use Study is available online today. The National Park Service contracted Otak Inc., RRC Associates, and The University of Montana Institute for Tourism Recreation Research to conduct the study to help...

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging Kasan Alkafi, 39, of Buffalo, NY, with conspiracy to distribute cocaine, possession with intent to distribute cocaine, maintaining a drug-involved premises, and possession with intent to distribute, and distribution of, cocaine. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, and a $1,000,000 fine.

By Homeland Newswire | Nov 7, 2019
Release: SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) announced Thursday that it is prepared for an increase in travelers departing Sioux Falls Regional Airport (FSD) in the days leading up to and immediately following the Thanksgiving holiday.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2019
News Release: TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA - Mary E. Forehand, 40, of Tallahassee, Florida, has been sentenced to serve 15 years in federal prison for possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine, possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, and possession of a firearm and ammunition by a convicted felon. The sentence was announced by Lawrence Keefe, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Worcester man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Worcester to being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2019
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that Donald Benson, 30, of Columbia, was sentenced to 50 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2019
News Release: CONCORD - United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced that Geudin Nivar Baez, a/k/a/ Jhonatan Mateo, 31, of Lawrence, Massachusetts, was sentenced yesterday to 52 months in federal prison for participating in a conspiracy to distribute fentanyl.

By Homeland Newswire | Nov 7, 2019
News Release: Dear Secretary Pompeo: In April 2014, Vice President Biden reportedly became the “public face of the administration’s handling of Ukraine."[1] Around the same time, the Vice President’s son, Hunter Biden, and his business associate, Devon Archer, both began serving on the board of Burisma Holdings,...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of Justice announced today that Fagron Holding USA LLC (Fagron) has agreed to pay $22.05 million to resolve allegations concerning the establishment of false and inflated Average Wholesale Prices (AWPs) by its wholly owned subsidiary Freedom Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Freedom)...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MAHDI HENDERSON, 25, of New Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 37 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for illegally possesses a loaded handgun.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2019
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - A Bath County woman, Della Mae Barnett, 62, was sentenced in federal court Thursday, to 12 months in prison, for committing Social Security fraud.